This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.

UPVM has been participating to the Erasmus programme since its launch in 1987.Historically, the university has always counted a high proportion of international students, representing around 1/5th of the overall student population.Internationalization has naturally always been at the heart of the university's global strategy.The Erasmus+ programme allows the university to meet the expectations of the students in terms of studies, as well as the expectations of staff members in the framework of mobilities for training and for teaching.Through the academic year 2016/17, UPVM has organized the mobility of 239 members of the institution, which includes 213 students and 26 staff members.Among students, 170 have achieved a mobility for studies, and 43 have achieved a mobility for traineeships.Around 55% of the students who participated in the programme also received a national grant given on social criteria.Among staff members, 23 have achieved staff mobility for teaching and 3 have achieved a staff mobility for training.Among the most obvious impacts of the programme, we may quote:- The development of personal competences known as cross-curricular, allowing students to understand their training and their future career with more maturity.- Deepening the professional competence of staff that has completed training mobility.- The strengthening of cooperation with partner universities, noted by staff that carried out educational mobility.Finally, the participation to the programme has allowed the whole UPVM community to continually seek to improve the quality of the training offered by the university and to respond continuously more accurately to the problems arising from the significant proportion of international students welcomed at the university.In the same time, the administrative procedures have been made more effective every year, which has allowed the university to optimize the support to outgoing and incoming students.

This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.

This project aims at transcending boundaries between « high » and « popular » cultures, here established playwrights and anonymous writers, by investigating their productions for a same medium: puppet and marionette theatre. Focusing on key-periods of drama history (1600-2000) it explores how puppeteers and authors both contribute to the raise of a specific dramaturgy. Introducing these repertoires into the history of Western European drama opens a double ground-breaking perspective: on one side, it exceeds the limits of local inquiries and reveals cultural transfers through social groups and nations; on the other, it leads to reexamine theatre historiography by considering the cohesion of “theatrical systems” (Marotti) and giving visibility to a long despised and scatered corpus. The main objectives are 1) to gather a corpus of representative plays which document the development of puppetry in Western Europe (Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Nederlands, Portugal, Spain); 2) to identify the specific features of puppet and marionette plays and their variations through time, cultural areas, conditions of production and targeted audiences; 3) to re-evaluate the contribution of these repertoires to the construction of European cultural identity. The principal investigator brings to this project, besides a long experience of internationally recognized research, an excellent knowledge of artistic and cultural networks which guarantees the access to primary sources as well as the mobilisation of experts and partner institutions. Using digital humanities tools and methods, the project will produce a platform making available the selected corpus through a data base and searchable thesaurus, and offering innovative resources to the research community, pedagogues, practitioners and public at large. The research will lead to a better integration of puppetry into theatre history, an increased knowledge of its heritage, and a growing institutional recognition.

The University Paul-Valéry (UPV) has been taking part to the Erasmus Programme since 1987.Historically, a large international student population has always had a strong representation (about a 5th part of the whole student population)Internationalisation actually forms one of the strategic pilars of the university policy.The Erasmus+ programme allows to address the student needs in terms of training as well as the staff ones regarding their teaching and training expectations. It contributes, in this way, to the international standing of the institution.In 2014/15, the UPV has sent 248 people in mobility stays, including 210 students and 38 staff members.Among the students, 173 have realised a student mobility and 37 a placement mobility.Among the staff members, 33 have realised a teaching mission and 37 a training mission.72% of the student participants were beneficiaries of scholarships on social criteria.Among the most obvious impacts of the programme, we can point out:•The development of the student transversal skills, allowing them to approach their education and their future professional life with more maturity.•The strengthening of the professional skills for the staff members having realised a training mobility.•The intensification of cooperations with the partner universities, observed by the staff members having realised a teaching mobility.Finally, the participation to the programme has encouraged the whole UPV university community to intend continuously to better the quality of the teaching and to resolve more and more precisely the pedagogical issues generated by the significative presence of international students. At the same time, the administrative procedures have become more and more efficient year after year, and this has allowed an optimisation of the support for outgoing and incoming students.